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Kansas State 
Agricultural College 



A Statement of its Needs for the 
Next Two Years 



Manhattan, Kansas 

December lO, 1910 



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^ o^eeds of the Kansas State Ao'rieiiltiiral Colle^^e. 



Industrial and technical subjects are the most expensive of all 
subjects to teach. A large outlay is required for equipment. 
Teachers in these subjects can usually command large salaries in 
practical lines, and are, therefore, hard to hold in college posi- 
tions. The classes must be relatively small. A class in a purely 
lecture subject may number a hundred, or even two hundred, but 
good instruction cannot be given by the laboratory method to 
more than thirty or forty students at a time. In agriculture, 
mechanic arts and domestic science and general science the stu- 
dents are taught almost entirely by the laboratory method. That 
is, they are taught how to do things by being taught to do them. 

An educational institution, of any sort, to meet the demands of 
to-day, cannot stand still — it must go either forward or backward. 
Moreover, an institution like the Kansas State Agricultural Col- 
lege is each year being called upon by those interested in agricul- 
ture or the industries to render alargei* and more definite service. 
What, ten years ago, constituted a successful agricultural college 
would to-day be a small and unimportant institution indeed. The 
demands of the immediate future promise to be as large and im- 
portant as have been those of the recent past. 

For the first time in history, such fundamental problems as the 
world's food supply, the conservation of natural resources, and 
the revitalizing of the country church, the rural school, and indeed 
country life, are being made the special problems of the agricul- 
tural college. 

The farmer no longer attempts to work out his own difiicult 
problems, but refers them to the experiment station for solution. 
Thousands of farmers cannot avail themselves of the opportunities 
the college offers by studying at the college, but they rely upon 
the farmers' institutes, the demonstration farms, the instruction 
trains, and the reading courses, for definite instruction and guid- 
ance. The losses from several of the animal diseases, which 
formerly amounted to millions of dollars annually, are now being 
practically prevented by the serums produced at the agricultural 
college. 

The amount and kind of service the people of a state may ex- 
pect from their agricultural college will be definitely gauged by 
the financial support accorded it. 



Maintenance. 

This account carries all general expenses connected with the 
college, including salaries of teachers and employes, lighting and 
heating the buildings, freight, care of the campus, postage, etc. It 
is the bread and butter of the institution. The amount set down is 
conservative, and is considered the least upon which the col- 
lege can operate without seriously crippling its efficiency. The 
proportionate increase in this fund is less than in former years. 
The cost to the state per student is much lower in the Kansas 
State Agricultural College than in any other college of its size and 
quality in the country. This, notwithstanding the fact already 
pointed out, that industrial education is the most expensive pos- 
sible to devise. 

For this i)urix)se the Board of Regents has asked 

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$l>00.000 $220,000 

The Experiment Station- 
One of the largest services rendered to the state by the college 
is through the researches of the experiment station. These cover 
every phase of agriculture, including soil management, crop 
production, origination and development of new^ and improved 
strains of staple crops, the development of crops especially 
adapted to the western portion of the state, the breeding, feeding 
and management of live stock, the control of animal and plant 
diseases, the suppression of the ravages of insect pests, fruit 
growing, dairy husbandry, and poultry husbandry. 

For this imrpose is asked $20,000 $2'), 000 

College Extension. 

Through this department the discoveries and teachings of the 
college and experiment station are brought directly to the people, 
through farmers' institutes, demonstration farms, instruction 
trains, reading courses, etc. Every county in the state is visited 
by representatives of this department, and every industry of im- 
portance is encouraged through its teachings. The amount of 
good this department can do in the development of Kansas indus- 
tries will be limited only by the amount of money the state is will- 
ing to invest in it. 

The Board of Regents has asked $35,000 $40,000 

Fort Hays Branch Experiment Station. 

This is an institution especially organized to serve the interests 
of the western portion of the state, to work out the agricultural 
problems peculiar to this region; to develop varieties of grain and 
forage crops adapted to the climatic conditions there prevailing; 
and to work out systems of farming that will be m.ore remuner- 
ative and support a larger population. This portion of the state 
has a soil of great fertility, a climate capable of developing a rug- 



ged and virile race of people. The problem is to learn how to 

secure sufficient and uniform yields with a limited water supply. 

For this purpose the Soard of Regents has recommended to 

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the legislature the sums of $30,000 $30,000 

Library Equipment. 

For the improvement and better equipment of the library, 
which benefits every student in the college, the Board of Regents 

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has asked $7,000 $7,000 

Heat and Power Equipment. 

The economical heating and lighting of a plant like the Kansas 
State Agricultural College is no small undertaking. With two 
large buildings added, viz., the mechanical engineering building 
and the new armory and gymnasium, it is necessary to increase 
the equipment and to revise in an important way the lighting and 
heating systems. 

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For this purpose the Board estimates. $7,500 $7,500 

Heat Tunnels. 

It is necessary to extend the heat tunnel to the new armory 
and gymnasium, and the equipment in tlie present tunnel is in 
very bad shape, and needs, for efficient and economical service, 
overhauling, and in many instances entire replacing. The cost of 
all this work would probably fall between $10,000 and $15,000. 

It is estimated that the amount absolutely imperative to be done 
within the next two years will require an appropriation of at 

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least $3,000 $3,000 

Fire Protection and Escapes. 

The college has at the present time very poor tire fighting fa- 
cilities, and no fire escapes. For the protection of the property 
of the state, and the lives of the students attending the college,, 
the Board urgently requests the legislature to provide an appro- 

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priation of $6,000 $6,000 

Water-Supply. 

The present water-supply of the college is insufficient and is 
not free from the danger of contamination. At times, the college 
is forced to buy water from the city of Manhattan, at a price far 
in excess of the cost to the college for pumping from its own 
wells. It is proposed to sink an additional well, on ground that 
can be made absolutely free from contamination, and to establish 
a more economical system of pumping than is now provided. For 
this purpose it is estimated that there will be required 

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$1,500 $1,500 



— Coal. 

Experience has demonstrated that it is not possible, at times, 
for the penitentiary to supply all the state institutions with the 
amount of coal required to heat and light them. At various times 
the college has been obliged to purchase coal in the market, and 
has for months been in imminent danger of a shortage. The 
Board of Regents, therefore, recommends to the legislature that a 
fund for this purpose be appropriated to the college, with the 
proviso that only such part of the fund is to be used as is required 
to pay the freight and drayage on the coal secured from the pen- 
itentiary and for the purchase of such an amount of coal as the 
penitentiary cannot furnish, the remainder to revert automatically 
to the state. 

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The sum estimated for this revolving fund is. . .$14,000 $14,000 

General Repairs. 

For many years no special fund has been provided for the 
repair of the buildings and other property of the college. As a 
result, the buildings are not in a state of good repair. The roofs 
of several of the i3uildings need to be entirely replaced; in one 
instance the entire end of a building will need to be reconstructed; 
floors in other buildings are worn out. The state architect, at the 
request of the authorities of the college, went carefully over the 
institution and estimated in detail the i-epairs required, and the 
sums requested by the Board of Regents for this purpose are those 

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rec(mimended by him, as follows $15,000 $20,000 

Armory and Gymnasium. 

(To complete literury society Ir.ills and swiiiiriiin^- iiools. ) 

The following statement from the state architect in relation to 
tliis matter is selfex])lanatory, and fully sets forth the need for 
this appropriation and the reason why these items were not in- 
cluded in the original contract for the building : 

"With refei^ence to the armory and f^-yranasium, foi- which the le^'islature 
of 1909 made an ai)i)ro()riation of $100, (X)0, 1 will say tliat under the contract 
with Walter Li. Stinj^lcy for tiie main structure, and the Salina Plumbini^- 
Company for the plumbin<i- and heatiny. and a certain allowance for elec- 
trical work, this buildinijf will be comi)leted for all the purposes contemplated 
in the act, and will be ready for occupancy at the openini^- of school in Sep- 
tember, 1911. A sufficient sura is available for liyhtiny and equipment. 

"In order to desij^n a buildino" of sufficient majj-nitude to comprehend the 
pool and locker si)aces necessary for both younj^- men and younj^- women, 
and a j^-ymnasium and armory Hoor sufficient for the drill movements of the 
cadet corps, we found it necessary tt) carry out a desi<ifn that, above the 
main floor, would afford considerable room which could be advantajreously 
finished for the uses of the various literary societies of the college. We find 
that this space whicli is available for this ])urpose will amount to nine <rood- 
sized rooms. 

"In view of the fact that many of the societies of the colleo-e are meetin"- 
in basements, in unventilated and unsanitary quarters, with the permission 
of the Board of Regents the buildinp- was designed so as to provide for 
these society rooms. 

"The ajipropriation was not sufficient to finish these society halls, and 



indeed I question wliether, under the terms of the appropriation, we could 
have used tlie funds for sueli purposes, and they, therefore, remain in an 
unfinished condition. The enclosinjjf of this space wliieh can be finished for 
tliese purposes was rendered necessary in order to have a sutiiciently large 
basement for the combined use of tlie Ijoys and girls, as before stated. 

"The language of the statute a])propriating the funds for this building 
was such that no part of the appropriation could be used for other than 
strictly armory and g'ymnasium purposes and the equipment thereof. 

"In order now to complete these rooms, which may be designated as 
literary society rooms, or, indeed, very valuable class rooms, and also the 
installation and equipment of two swimming pools, it will be necessary to 
ask for an appropriation of $22,000." 

(Signed) C. H. Chandler, Slate Architect. 

The literary societies, nine in number, are doing a work of ines- 
timable value in the college. At the ])resent time they hold their 
meetings in halls that are poorly ventilated and are not suited to 
such purposes. To provide these societies with halls is to encour- 
age young men and women to take more interest in this voluntary 
literary work, so important to their success in after life. 

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For this purpose the Board of Regents has asked $22,000 

The Milling Industry. 

Kansas is the principal hard winter wheat state of the union. 
Only forty per cent of the wheat grown in Kansas is milled in the 
state. Every bushel of wheat grown here ought to be milled 
within the state, in order to help build up the state's industries 
and to keep the by-products of bran and shipstuff at home, to be 
fed to improved live stock and the fertility be thereby returned to 
our soil instead of being lost to the state. The college is seeking, 
through this department, to increase the quality of the Kansas flour, 
by more scientific blending of the wheats; through instruction as 
to the handling of the wheat, from harvest until the time it is 
milled; by baking and chemical tests, to show how the wheats may 
be used to produce the largest yield of flour of the highest quality. 

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For this purpose the Boai-d of Regents is asking, $2,000 $2,000 

Forestry. 

For the purposes of producing windbreaks, to ascertain what 
varieties of trees are best suited to the different climatic and soil 
conditions of the state, liow they ma.y be raised to become the 
most effective in preventing destructive winds, soil drifting, and 
for propagation of nursery stock, the Board is asking 

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$3,000 $3,000 

Dodge City Forest Station 2,200 2,200 

Ogalla Forest Station 2,200 2,200 

Dairy Commissioner. 

Kansas ought to be, and is destined soon to become, one of the 
leading dairy states of the union. Dairying is perhaps one of the 
most permanently profitable specialties of farming. The whole 
problem of developing the industry, of increasing the quality of 

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the dairy products of the state, the inspection of the skimming, 
cream buying and manufacturing plants of the state, the inspec- 
tion of testing cream, etc., rests in the oftice of the dairy com- 
missioner. 

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The Board recommends for this purpose $7,500 $7,500 

3 ^ A Garden City Experiment Station. 

Four years agoUhe county of Finney deeded to the college a 
farm consisting of j!«f acres, for the purpose of conducting an 
experiment station and demonstrations in general farming on the 
uplands of this region. The land is practically without equiiiment 
or fences. It is estimated that for the erection of a suitable cot- 
tage for the superintendent, a barn, necessary fences, for the 
purchase of the necessary machinery and live stock, and for the 
maintenance of the work for two years, there will be required an 

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appropriation as follows $5,000 $2,500 

Better Equipment and Increased >Vork of Departments. 

For the better equipments of the departments of the college 
named below, the following sums are recommended: 

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Domestic Science $2,000 $2,000 

Animal Hushandrv 5.000 5,000 

Dairy Husbandry". 5,000 5.000 

Ag-ronom v 5,000 5,000 

Poultry . ; 5,000 5,000 

Horticulture 5,000 5,000 

Veterinary Medicine 2,500 2,500 

En^ineerinf,'- lahoratorv 10,000 10,000 

Printino- " ;{,000 2,000 

Agricultural Hall. 

At the present time one of the smallest buildings on the campus 
is the agricultural building. This is because the agricultural 
building was one of the first to be erected, and was built when the 
enrollment was between 400 and 500, instead of approximately 
2,400, as at present. The animal husbandry department, soils, 
and the crops department, have entirely outgrown this structure, 
and it is recommended that a new building for these departments 
be provided, to contain a live stock judging pavilion, a laboratory 
for instruction in cutting and curing meats, a corn and small grain 
judging pavilion, and class rooms for animal husbandry, soils, and 
crops. The present agricultural building is sorely needed by 
other departments, which have also outgrown their quarters. 

For an agricultural hall and its equipment is asked 

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$50,000 $75,000 

Physics Building and Equipment. 

A building adapted to the needs of the departments of physics 
and electrical engineering is sorely needed. These departments 

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are now quartered in the jj^eneral science buiklini4-, which is over- 
run with students. The department of chemistry, which is also 
quartered in this building, has at this moment in attendance upon 
classes and in laboratory exercises nearly a thousand students. 
They have laboratory room for 1^76 students, and there are takinc? 
laboratory work in this space over 700 students. The experiment 
station laboratories in soil fertility, stock feeding, etc., have been 
taken over mainly to accommodate students, and these important 
phases of investigation are greatly hampered. 

In physics, there is room for :31(3 students, by working six days 
each week. There were enrolled in this subject last spring nearly 
600 students, and are at the present time nearly 500. Before the 
end of the year it is probable that there will be over 700 seeking 
instruction in this crowded space. 

It is estimated that for a physics building and its equipment 

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there will be required $45,000 $45,000 

Barn for the Department of Animal Husbandry. 

There is no suitable barn for the housing of the thousands of 
dollars' worth of valuable live stock belonging to the college. 
Some of the best animals in the state are forced either to remain 
out of doors in winter, or to stand in a badly crowded and poorly 
ventilated stable. There is not a suitable place on the college 
farm for the storage of feed, the preservation of silage, or the 
shelling and grinding of grain. In other words, the physical 
equipment of the animal husbandry department of the college is 
not as good as that of many of the private breeders of the state. 

The Board has, therefore, recommended an appropriation for 

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the erection of a suitable barn and its equipment.. .$25, 000 

Poultry House. 

Poultry husbandry is one of the most important industries in 
the state. The college has a well-organized poultry department, 
with a splendid equipment of fowls, but absolutely no equipment 
of buildings, etc. The Board, therefore, recommends for this pur- 

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pose $5,000 — 

Regents' Fund. 

For the per diem and the traveling expenses of the Regents in 

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attending the meetings of the Board, is asked $2,500 $2,500 

Contingent Fund. 

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For the president of the college $500 $500 



The following is a summary: 

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Maintenance $200,000 $220,000 

Laboratory and library equipment 7,000 7,000 

Experiment station 20,000 25,000 

Domestic science 2.000 2,000 

Animal husbandry 5,000 5,000 

Dairy husbandry 5,000 5,000 

Department of ayronomv 5,000 5,000 

Poultry \ ". 5,000 5,000 

Horticulture 5,000 5,000 

Veterinary department 2,500 2,500 

Enu-ineerinf^- laboiatory 10,000 10.000 

Heat and powei' equipment 7.500 7,500 

Water supply 1,500 1.500 

Fire ])rotection and escapes (i,000 (i.OOO 

Printing- department .'5,000 2,0U0 

Agricultural hall and equipment 50.000 75,000 

Physics building- and equi])ment 45,000 45.000 

Barn for animal husbandry 25,000 

Poultry house 4,500 

Armory and g-ymnasium (to comjjlete litei-ai-y socii^y 

halls and swimming" i)ools) 22,000 

Milling- industry 2,000 2.()()0 

Colleg-e extension ;{5,000 40.000 

Forestry :{,000 ;{,000 

Dodge City forest station 2,200 2.200 

Ogallah forest station 2,200 2,200 

General repairs 15.000 20.000 

Dairy connnissioiu'r 7.500 7.500 

Hays^ branch experiment station ."iO.OOO ."{O.OOO 

Garden Citv station 5,000 2,500 

Regents' fund 2,500 2,500 

Contingent fund for president 500 500 

Coal 14,000 14,000 

Heat tunnels 3,000 3.000 

Totals $550,000 .$555.!)00 

Very respectfully submitted, 

H. J. Waters, J'rrsidcul. 



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